History

Alexander von Humboldt was a universal scholar who worked on his research relentlessly. His 5-year expedition on the American continent, his best-known project, is only a fraction of the scientist's achievements. Berlin is honoring him today.

Forty-seven years ago in Munich, Palestinian terrorists murdered almost the entire Israeli team at the Olympic Games. West Germany aided the culprits by making…

Eighty years ago, Nazi Germany attacked Poland. By doing so it started World War II, which brought death and misery to Europe. During this war, six million Jews…

The Berlin Wall, which fell thirty years ago in November, was a symbol for the entire Iron Curtain between the area of the Warsaw Pact and the West during the Cold War. Back then, there were GDR citizens who thought fleeing to the West via Bulgaria was easier. Many of them were killed trying.

August 12th, 1961, was a warm summer day in Berlin. Just like today, tourists looked at Brandenburg Gate from all angles. They did not take as many photos as…

Müller continued saying "this act and the historic experience connected to the resistance teach us that freedom and human rights need to be hard-won, preserved…

The message conveyed by ‘Holocaust’: It can happen again, anywhere and anytime. Now those responsible for the rerun are hoping for the kind of effect the premiere had, in these times in which antisemitism in Germany is on the rise again.

It was in 1969 when Walter Scheel made history. Obviously, it took him some effort to convince his party to change horses in 1969. He wanted the FDP to join the…

In the morning of June 17th, 1953, workers at factories all over the GDR commenced a strike. Huge protests took place in the centers of the state's larger…

Anne Frank, probably the most prominent Holocaust victim, would have celebrated her 90th birthday today. She died in early 1945, just months before Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender, at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.